| Show potato harvesting to commence within week harvesting S ot of Paro carowan parowan warl valleys alley first t big potato crop approximate acres will commence within a elt or ten te days it was stated morning aning by s S sessions of los angeles to wll whom tile ls is crop con coa tract tr acted two potato digging machines ano and approximately PP thirty men will b employed boyed Po in the digging ten truck most of them equipped with aith trailers trai lors will be employed in hauling to the railroad and twenty five or men willbe will be employed down at the station in in classifying re sacking and loading onto the cars local men will be employed and local trucks used except that an experienced man from the C E follendore truck co of los angeles will one truck will be in charge it Is expected that nearly thirty days wil be required co 16 1 6 dig and get them onto the cars they will be classified with power equipment at tile the railroad station sacked backed in fancy bags each labeled with the kind of potatoes it con dahis and carrying a utah brand A yield of about bags per acre was estimate esti mateda ds short time ag and bags were ordered tor for that a mount but extremely favorable weather particularly during the last mouth month makes it appear now as the they will yield heavier than that it will require about cars tc move them to the coast market mr air sessions states one hundred arid and twenty five bag per acre are contracted to mr air ses alons at a bag or a cent a pound it Is understood but grobeis are to get the market price for or any in excess of that many and it looks now as though they might get from to a bag tor for those n not cit contracted with a shortage ot of 50 million bushels ot of potatoes this year in the united states over the seven year average or 20 million busheff short ot of last year the price undo normal conditions should be about 1200 but due to the general depression all over the country it Is likely to be under that in addition to the acreage in this valley there are about fifty acres in cedar valley in which mr air sessions is interested besides these he has contracts tor for a substantial acreage in the raville district of beaver county though he interested in them he be states that there will be about eleven car loads shipped out from froin the beryl district this fall arid and around twenty cars from the enterprise section of the acres in this valley near halt of them are on the day farms other growers are H L A days wallace hulet J B dalton frank culver horace evans and possibly two or three others PT |
